Improvement in pea-picker



ABNER QUINN," oF WILMINGToN, NORTH'CAROLINA, ASSIGNORl To I-IIMSELF ANDA. E. WRIGHT. Latas Patent No. 37,705, dated Marche, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEA-PICKER.

The Schedule rean-ed to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe sama.'

Toall whom 'it 'ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, ABNER QUINN, of Wilmington, in the county of New Hanover, and the State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improved PeaIicker; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, suficient to enable one skilled in the art to which my invention belongs, to construct and operate the same, reference being had to theI accompanying drawings,

' forming part of this specication, in which- Figure lis a longitudinal vertical section through line ma: of fig. 2, and

Figure 2 is a top view.

rlhe object oftbis invention is to provide, for public use, a cheap, simple, .and eective machine, to be operated by hand, or other power, by which pea-nuts, or the pods of leguminous plants can be readilysepalrated from their vine s, and thoroughly cleansed from dirt. l

In the drawingsy F represents the frame of the machine. A, the feed-table, or incline. B, a revolving toothed cylinder, operating, in connection with'a set of upright teeth, a a, at the lower end of thefeed-table, to break up the vines, and loosen the dirt, 85o. l

O, a revolving brush, arranged behind the cylinder B, and operating to clean the teeth of the latter, and to detach from them any pods or trash that may be adherent thereto, and to throw such substances down upon a sieve beneath. D, the sieve referred to, hung to the frame by straps d d, and vibrated by means of a.1ever,E, operated by a cam, e, upon cylinder B,.as shown in g. 2-

G, a fan-wheel, partially enclosed in a case, H, and operating to throw a strong current of air both against the sieve D and above and below it, as will readil'yvbe understood from lig. I; and

I, anincline, upon which the fruit, purified andseparated from the vines, drops from the sieve D, and is discharged into suitable receptacles, the vines, dust,

' 85e., being blown away through the open space J, in

the rear end of the machine, by means of the current of air induced by fan G.

The machine is operated by cranks K L, or by pulleys and belting, or gearing, if other than hand-power is employed.

The brush is operated in the same direction as the cylinder, by means of a belt, M, connecting-them.

The fan is also operated from the cylinder by means of a belt, N, and the necessary pulleys.

It is evident, that instead of a plain incline, I, constructed-as shown, an inclined sieve could be used in its place, and it might be oseillated or not, for the purpose of separating the large from the small i`1uit,or of more completely driving on" the dust, 85o.

Having thus described my invention,

- What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,isl The combination of the toothed cylinder B,Abrush C, sieve F, incline I, fan Gr, incline A, teeth c a, and

the necessary gearing, or belting, when constructed-to operate in the manner described, and for the purpose specified.

- ABNER QUINN. Witnesses: y

1H. E. SCOTT,

.A. E. WRIGHT. 

